>>38521772they are all forgettable - including every gym leader, with maybe one exception. pokemon human characters are all background noise. when every game can be described as "mc travels and beats bad team incedentally" with no honest derivation, there is no room for anything but faceless people standing to the side of your path to shuffle you along in the right direction.
it's a big flaw with the silent hero game archetype as a whole. your party members are the only things in the setting that get proper stories, often even further beyond the hero who are almost always "chosen ones". since the party members are pokemon, not even that can be a saving grace.
nobody does stupid shit like post a picture and go "is he the most forgettable cureslime ever?"